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2/2/2011 1 CASE/CALET Winter PreConference February 2 nd 2011 Westin Hotel, Westminster CO Clearing the Clouds What are Some Possible Roles for Cloud Computing in K12 IT? Curtis Lee, Director of Information Technology Poudre School District, Fort Collins, CO Panelists: Dan Brinkmann, Solutions Architect, Lewan & Associates Tim DiScipio, Founder, ePals Randy Jones, Senior Software Architect, IBM Sean MacKirdy, Cisco Systems Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, ondemand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. (This definition is from the latest draft of the NIST Working Definition of Cloud Computing published by the U.S. Government's National Institute of Standards and Technology.1) What is Cloud Computing? What are the Cloud’s origins? Moore’s Law Virtualization Web Services & SOA Backhaul Broadband Exponential Mobile Growth

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CASE/CALET  Winter Pre‐Conference February 2nd 2011 

Westin Hotel, Westminster CO

Clearing the Clouds What are Some Possible Roles for Cloud Computing in K12 IT? 

Curtis Lee, Director of Information Technology Poudre School District, Fort Collins, CO

Panelists:• Dan Brinkmann, Solutions Architect, Lewan & Associates • Tim DiScipio, Founder, ePals• Randy Jones, Senior Software Architect, IBM • Sean MacKirdy, Cisco Systems 

Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous,convenient, on‐demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. 

(This definition is from the latest draft of the NIST Working 

Definition of Cloud Computing published by the U.S. Government's National Institute of Standards and Technology.1)

What is Cloud Computing?

What are the Cloud’s origins? 

• Moore’s Law• Virtualization• Web Services & SOA• Backhaul Broadband• Exponential Mobile Growth

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3 Cloud Service Models

Software as a Service

Cloud Applications Cloud Platforms

Use of an application over a network

SaaS

Platform as a Service

Deploy customer‐created applications to a cloud 

PaaS

Infrastructure as a Service

Rent processing, storage and network capacity

IaaS

• Private cloud 

– enterprise owned or provided by outsourcer

• Community cloud– shared infrastructure for specific community

• Public cloud– sold to the public, mega‐scale infrastructure

• Hybrid cloud

– composition of two or more clouds“Green” Cloud

“G‐Cloud”

“High Security” Cloud

“Demo” Cloud

“Retail” Cloud“NHS” Cloud

4 Cloud Deployment Models

Audience Question 1

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Randy Jones,  IBM

Randy Jones is an experienced pre‐sales IT professional and engineer with 25+ years in the IT field, leveraging strong ECM and InfoSphere product knowledge with over 15 years application architecture background. Randy's responsibilities continue to focus on identifying key business opportunities, building strategic relationships with the Great West Public and Distribution sector clients, driving revenue, discovering opportunities, and determining how IBM’s products fit into a clients existing architecture. Randy has been working in designing new education solutions for modernizing Colorado’s school systems and providing though leadership to IBM’s education team. 

Audience Question 2

Tim DiScipio, ePals

Tim DiScipio is the founder of ePals (www.epals.com). Created in 1996, ePals is the education industry pioneer and leader in school‐safe email, blogs and collaborative workspace technology designed specifically for K‐12 teachers, students and administrators. The ePals Global Community is recognized as one of the first social networks on the web. Described as the largest and fastest‐growing "social learning network", it reaches more than 25 million teachers and students in 200 countries for national or international project sharing, literacy skill building or cross‐cultural collaboration.

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Audience Question 3

Daniel Brinkman, Lewan Associates

Dan Brinkmann is a Solutions Architect at Lewan & Associates. Since joining Lewan & Associates in 2008, Dan has been helping Enterprise customers design large and small data centers with challenging and complex requirements. Dan has extensive design experience with Systems and Storage and specific expertise in Server and Desktop Virtualization technologies from Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware. Prior to joining Lewan & Associates, Dan was an IT Manager responsible for Server & Database Infrastructure and Desktop Architecture at a Denver‐based Fortune 500 company.email – [email protected] ‐ http://blog.lewan.comtwitter ‐ http://www.twitter.com/dbrinkmann

Audience Question 4

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Sean Mackirdy, Cisco Systems

In Colorado, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming, Cisco’s Public Sector Sales team is led by Sean MacKirdy, an eleven year veteran of Cisco. Mr. MacKirdy has taken the lead for Cisco’s sales organization on more than $500M in successful customer deployments in that time, including:  three of the first six pilot sites of the Navy/Marine Corp Internet (N/MCI) global LAN/WAN/Data Center outsourcing project (2001); Managed the VA Wireless Fidelity Program, a deployment of over 100,000 Access Points managed from four data centers (2008.) Mr. MacKirdy resides in Colorado Springs, CO, has two school‐age children enrolled in D‐38, and completed his bachelorette studies at Pepperdine University.

More Questions than Answers, Perhaps

Will the last one leaving the datacenter please turn the lights out…

Thanks to our panelists and audience !

Stay Warm…cl